Matthew Sturgis

Bloomsbury presents Oscar by Matthew Sturgis, read by Jot Davies. The first major biography of Oscar Wilde in thirty years, and the most complete telling of his life and times to date. NOMINATED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2019 'The Book of the Year, perhaps of the decade' TLS 'Simply the best...

The fullest, most textural, most accurate—most human—account of Oscar Wilde's unique and dazzling life—based on extensive new research and newly discovered materials, from Wilde's personal letters and transcripts of his first trial to newly uncovered papers of his early romantic (and...

Bloomsbury presents Relative Failures, written and read by Matthew Sturgis. History remembers the greats – but what about those who lived alongside them? In the cultural ferment of late nineteenth-century London, three fascinating but often overlooked figures navigated the world in the shadow...